medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
At 03:59 PM 9/16/2002 -0500, Dennis Martin wrote:
>There was a definite retention of the evangelists' and apostles' feasts in
>the liturgical calendar for Lutherans, perhaps in some Calvinist
>circles. But even that actually marks out a difference: these could be
>retained liturgically because they were the first generation and were
>"biblical".
<snip>
>Yes, all deceased Christians who died in faith (who were of the Elect in
>Calvinist terms) are in heaven, but from the Protestant perspective one
>did not add them to liturgical calendars or invoke their intercession.
Yet the post from Phyllis Jestice to which this is a reply mentions
(correctly, in my experience) Anglican liturgical commemorations of
Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley. I have attended an Anglican commemoration of
Charles the Martyr in which Laud and (because this was in a mostly black
congregation whose priest had been ordained by an Ethiopian bishop) Haile
Selassie were also commemorated in prayers. Leaving aside the matter
of intercession, it seems incontrovertible that Anglicans have added to
their liturgical calendars saints who were not "biblical". Does the
above-quoted statement about "the Protestant perspective" (clearly
different from "most Protestant perspectives" or even from "the perspective
of most Protestants") mean that Anglicans were not Protestant when they
made these additions? If not, what does it mean?
Best,
John Dillon
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